On Wednesday 02 November 2005 09:39 am, Matt Stamm wrote:
I'm recent pruchased a new PC with a single SATA drive. I was unable to install SUSE to this PC using the default install. Every install attempt resulted in a GRUB error on the initial boot after the first CD. Changing the bootloader from GRUB to LILO fixed the problem and resulted in a successfull install.
I'm concerned that I could not install SUSE with the default settings. It appears that SUSE, and the Linux community prefers GRUB and that GRUB is a more powerful bootloader than LILO. I do not plan on having any other OS on this PC other than SUSE.
Should I be concerned that I could not use GRUB?
What is the downside to using LILO instead of GRUB ?
Any advise or comment would be appreciated.
Matt
I have installed 10.0 on a machine with a SATA drive... an Intel motherboard -- so the problem must lie either with your hardware situation or possibly your BIOS settings for IDE/SATA. It is possible that the SATA drive switched position (numbering) when the system rebooted.. and that a grub setting might cure the boot problem.